School board supportive of budget requests

Angela Brandt

Havre Daily News

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The Havre Public Schools operations director Ric Floren had good news and bad news for the school board members at a preliminary budget meeting Monday night.

The good news: The elementary district got a 5 percent raise in its annual budget to a total of $6.7 million. In the high school district, the budget was raised by 7 percent for a sum of $4.6 million.

The bad news: Requests from school administrators were $260,000 more than the new funds for the elementary schools and the high school requests exceeded fund...